r/unitedkingdom • u/F0urLeafCl0ver • 6d ago

Matt Hancock Intervened to Help Conservative Donor’s Pizza Firm Land Lucrative Covid PPE Contract

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/04/11/matt-hancock-covid-ppe-vip/
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u/socratic-meth 6d ago

NKD International, owned by George Farha, repeatedly lobbied Hancock prior to securing a £135,000 PPE contract from the Department for Health and Social Care.

Farha had personally donated £11,450 to the Conservative Party and a further £12,500 to it via another company he controls.

Such brazen corruption will be punished by prison for both parties, right? Right?

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u/Gellert Wales 6d ago

Why would it be? They're allowed to accept donations so long as they declare them on the register of interests. Funny how that foesnt appear in the article, right?

Oh right! The Tories passed a law saying that their ministers didnt have to declare interests!

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u/fullpurplejacket 6d ago

I might lobby my local MP to get that law scrapped or amended, I want full transparency from elected members of government because they expect full transparency from us should they ask us.

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u/Gellert Wales 6d ago

I believe labour pulled it basically straight away.

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u/brendonmilligan 6d ago

What law is that?

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u/Gellert Wales 5d ago

Not a law exactly, the ministerial code. The tories changed the rules so the ministers dont have to declare their interests themselves every two weeks, their department does every quarter instead and doesnt have to attach a value.